Reader’s Ride: The Flinders Ranges, SA

Adventure Rider Issue #3

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Steve Evans’ HP2
• 10 Minutes With: Sam Sunderland
• 20 Things You Should Know About: KTM’s 950/990
• Reader’s Ride: The Flinders Ranges, SA
• Rules To Ride By with John Hudson
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Suspension with Nick Dole
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Girl’s Talk with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• KTM 700RR
• Triumph 1200 Explorer
• Kawasaki KLR650
• Ol’ Mate
• Motohansa R1200GS
• Reader’s Pic
• Gear With A Story
• VSM DRZ400S
• Industry Players: Andy Strapz
• Mongolia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Cape York
• It’s What We Do

The Flinders Ranges in South Australia are majestic at anytime, but after the winter rains around the start of spring they’re especially spectacular. It was the ideal destination for a couple of old blokes with Tiger’s tales.

Both Pete and I had bought 800XC Tigers and we’d been hanging out for an opportunity to get them up into the Flinders for a tour.

It only took a few weeks and we had about 15 riders involved. Some had tipped in for two days and others for almost a week. Pete worked on some tracks and trails north from our home town of Gawler, while I organised an overnighter at the Yunta pub and a few nights at the very moto-friendly Angorichina Tourist Village (Ango) in the Parachilna Gorge with hosts Dave and Caroline. We reckoned that was Flinders central!